Category: Review
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‘The Matrix Resurrections’ is Full of New Life
On Lana Wachowski’s new sequel.
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Judy Davis is Electrifying in ‘My Brilliant Career’
‘My Brilliant Career’’s ending feels like a beginning — the first stages of one’s potential finally being seen through.
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‘Broadcast News’ is a Great Romantic Comedy
Nothing exists in a simple binary in Albert L. Brooks’ dazzling rom-com/media satire hybrid.
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‘Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters’ is an Exhilarating Biopic
You don’t finish ‘Mishima’ with a holistic sense of who this man was. That doesn’t seem to be what Schrader has in mind, anyway.
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‘C’mon C’mon’ is One of the Year’s Loveliest Movies
Plus: ‘Benedetta.’
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‘The Hours’ Washes Over You
Despite the specificities of its characters’ pain, ‘The Hours’ finds universalities with such resounding precision that you finish it still underneath its clouds.
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‘Mondays in the Sun’ Feels Stuck in a Lull, But That’s Part of the Point
The movie was among Spain’s most decorated films of 2002.
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‘Fletch’ is a Breezy Detective Romp
‘Fletch’ goes by with the odd sense that there is almost nothing to really be worried about, because this preternaturally assured journalist is going to figure it all out.
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‘Get Back’ Casts The Beatles’ Final Days in a New Light
I’d watch the remaining 52 hours of footage if I could.
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‘The Power of the Dog’ is Another Triumph for Jane Campion
The film carries on the director’s long-standing inclination toward the literary.
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‘The 24-Hour Woman’ Can Be Scattered, But It Can Be Incisive, Too
‘The 24-Hour Woman’’s feelings of disarray reach their peak near its end, when we get a finale so extravagantly illogical that I thought for sure I’d only endure a few more minutes of it before an “it was all just a dream” reveal.
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‘The Bad and the Beautiful’ is an Essential Hollywood Melodrama
Vincente Minnelli doesn’t mince anything here.
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